Guitarist Jesper Strömblad has announced that he will sit out CYHRA's live appearances for the remainder of 2018. He will be temporarily replaced by Marcus Sunesson from ENGEL. The former IN FLAMES axeman explained in a statement: "Due to personal reasons concerning my family, I must step aside from CYHRA's current activities for the rest ...

Let There Be Rock School has announced its exciting and "can't-miss" Camp Rock Star event. It takes place February 21 through February 24, 2019 in Philadelphia and features legendary PANTERA and DOWN bassist Rex Brown, along with Virus Karkos and KYNG drummer Pepe Clarke as band directors. You will learn how to be a rock ...

WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale says that he went from the brink of financial ruin to being "richer than I ever was in DEEP PURPLE" in the space of three months when WHITESNAKE's 1987 release "Whitesnake" took the U.S. charts by storm. Coverdale recently spoke at length with Rock Candy magazine editor Howard Johnson, telling the ...

Dee Snider says that the decision to end TWISTED SISTER was partly motivated by his desire to go out while he can still put on a great show. TWISTED SISTER called it quits in 2016 after completing a farewell 40th-anniversary tour. The band's last-ever concert took place in November of that year — 20 months ...

Jack Russell says that he misses GREAT WHITE's founding guitarist Mark Kendall. The former GREAT WHITE singer, who has spent the last few years performing with a new lineup as JACK RUSSELL'S GREAT WHITE, told IndiePower.com in a recent interview (see video below): "We're doing an album called 'Once Bitten - Acoustical Bites', ...

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH singer Ivan Moody says that most big-name rappers that he has met are "about as hard as soft butter" despite the fact that they often portray themselves as hard-nosed, short-fused tough guys. Rivalries and beefs are a longstanding tradition in hip-hop, with many rappers trading lyrical barbs, live or via diss ...

In a brand new interview with South Africa's Sunday Times, GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Slash spoke about his trademark black top hat. Asked how on earth it stays on his head when he rocks out onstage, Slash said: "I do not really know how I do it, but my hat just always stays ...

HALESTORM has released a new virtual reality video featuring performances of the songs "Black Vultures" and "Vicious". The interactive clip, which was filmed over the summer during HALESTORM's show at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut, was shot with a multi-rig VR camera system with director Craig Ziogas and producers Mike Mushok (STAIND, SAINT ASONIA) ...

THE DARK ELEMENT, the project featuring former NIGHTWISH vocalist Anette Olzon and Finnish guitarist and songwriter Jani Liimatainen, has entered the studio to begin recording its second album. The follow-up to last year's "The Dark Element" will tentatively arrive in the fall of 2019 via Frontiers Music Srl. Olzon says: "I'm so excited that me ...

During a recent appearance on "The Classic Metal Show" podcast, DOKKEN vocalist Don Dokken said that the band plans to finish recording their new album — the group's first since 2012's "Broken Bones" — in February, and that it won't be released through recent label partner Frontiers Music Srl. "The whole month of February, I ...